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HARTFORD — A fire in the back hallway of a three story building on Webster Street was determined to be an arson, fire officials said Friday afternoon. Calls about the fire at the building at 53 Webster Street came in about 6:40 a.m. A male occupant told a 911 dispatcher he was trapped in a third-floor bathroom. Flames were visible to firefighters when they arrived. Captain Helene Lynch said firefighters were able to knock down. The fire was declared under control at 6:53 a.m. The fire marshal investigating the fire determined it was an arson. Hartford police department was called in assist in the investigation. At 7 a.m., there was a report that the male occupant had gotten out of...

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HARTFORD — A fire in the back hallway of a three story building on Webster Street was determined to be an arson, fire officials said Friday afternoon.Calls about the fire at the building at 53 Webster Street came in about 6:40 a.m. A male occupant told...

HARTFORD — A man pleaded guilty Thursday in a 2013 arson case that began with a search for cigarette butts and ended with the torching of a Manchester bar.
Aaron Blow, who originally was charged with first-degree arson, pleaded guilty under the Alford...

A judge granted bail Tuesday for a reputed mob bookmaker who had a stun gun and a cattle prod when he was charged last week with burning down a Middletown restaurant in an insurance fraud.
Federal prosecutors insisted that, as a condition of his release,...

ENFIELD — A suspicious fire on the deck of a vacant home at 376 Elm St. damaged the home's siding and back door, but did not extend into the house, fire officials said Wednesday.
Enfield police, the town fire marshal and the state fire marshal are...

An East Hartford man was charged with arson by a federal grand jury in connection with a 2010 fire at Enzo's Restaurant and Lounge, of which he was part owner, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
John A. Barile, 51, was also charged with...

HARTFORD — A man charged with a brutal killing at a Manchester apartment in January rejected a plea agreement in Superior Court on Wednesday, opting instead to go to trial on charges of felony murder, sexual assault and arson.Steven Durdek Jr.'s case...

HADDAM — A Virginia man admitted to setting a fire Thursday that destroyed a house and a barn on Candlewood Hill Road served briefly as a state police trooper in the 1980s, officials said.Ronald Carlson, 50, of Portsmouth, Va., presented himself to...

NEW HAVEN – Police arrested a suspect who they say was responsible for setting a small fire in the bathroom of the Yale University Bookstore earlier this week.
Police say they arrested the 14-year old New Haven boy hours after releasing images of the...

A Naperville man has been charged in federal court in connection with an arson fire at an FAA radar center that grounded nearly 2,000 flights in Chicago today, authorities said.
Brian Howard, 36, remains hospitalized following the incident, in which he...

NEW BRITAIN — A 19-year-old who police say is responsible for a June fatal fire in Southington pleaded not guilty in Superior Court Thursday.Eric Morelli, of Westwood Road, appeared before Judge Arthur Hadden wearing a suit. He is free on $150,000 bail...

HARTFORD — A judge on Tuesday found that a 75-year-old man set a fire at his East Windsor nursing home two years ago, but also that John H. Turner was not guilty by reason of mental disease.Judge Joan K. Alexander's finding followed an hour-long trial...

NEW HAVEN — Fire Chief Michael Grant listened from the gallery of U.S. District Court on Thursday as a state police investigator testified about a March 2011 fire that killed three people, including an 8-year-old boy.
Grant's one ear was turned toward...

After fire hit Joseph Palenza's multifamily building at 479-481 Farmington Ave. last month, city inspectors made a troubling discovery.
So many electrical hazards had accumulated over time — extension cords plugged into light sockets; loose or improper...

Fourteen-year-old Rayquan Livingston had high hopes for his 8-year-old cousin, "Shownee."
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A man who along with his wife was seriously injured in a fire early Friday that heavily damaged a home at 19 Beaver Dam Trail has been arrested on several charges, police said.
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When a shaken and distraught Nancy Tyler finally escaped from the South Windsor house where her ex-husband had held her hostage for 13 hours Tuesday, she bore a visible mark of the terror she endured.
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